Description
Oval Ring pendant.
Sterling silver 925, platinum-plated.
2-strand silver-coloured neck wire, 45 cm long.
Handmade silver pendant with a pearl, from the Oval Ring series.
-Pearl: the queen of the ocean.
-Its Greek name comes from the ancient Greek word “marmairo”, meaning to shine, and the pearl was dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite.
-And while precious stones lie deep within the earth, pearls are found on the seabed, in the heart of a living organism.
-A pearl is a hard material produced by the soft tissue of living shelled molluscs! When a grain of sand or a parasite gets inside an oyster’s shell, the oyster is irritated. Unable to expel the “intruder”, the mollusc secretes a smooth, hard, crystalline substance, nacre (calcium carbonate), around it to protect itself. As long as the intruder stays there, the mollusc keeps adding layers of this substance until, after a few years, the intruder is trapped inside a smooth, lustrous pearl.
-The most precious pearls form spontaneously in nature, but they are very rare. Wild pearls are known as natural pearls. Cultured pearls come from pearl-bearing molluscs such as oysters and mussels.
-Depending on the oyster, the type of shellfish, the water conditions and the intruder, pearls take on different colours. They are usually found in various shades of silver, gold, blue, cream, pink and green, as well as white and black.
*All our jewellery comes with a certificate of quality and authenticity for the metal and the precious or semi-precious stones.
*All our jewellery is nickel free.
